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CO2 and ROZ Conference Week 2018. Mr. Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, will be the Opening Day Program Keynote Speaker for the CO2 EOR Carbon Management Workshop, part of the 24th Annual CO2 Flooding and ROZ Conference week. Mr. Mike Godec, Vice President of Advanced Resources International, will conclude day one with his presentation “Importance of 45Q and Large-Scale CO2 EOR-Storage.” The four-day event will be held on December 3rd through the 6th at the Horseshoe Facility located in Midland, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.co2conference.net/

GHGT14 Conference. In October 2018, Vello Kuuskraa, Mike Godec, George Koperna, Clark Talkington, Anne Oudinot and Dave Reistenberg of Advanced Resources International, traveled to Melbourne, Australia to present and participate in the Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT 14). The International conference is on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies especially on CCS (CO2 Capture and Storage) and is sponsored by IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG). ARI presentation topics included CO2-EOR, CO2 injection, CO2 storage and CO2 well construction, among others. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.ghgt.info/

36th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference. Mike Godec, Vice President of Advanced Resources International, participated in the Plenary Session: Energy Innovation Extends Supply Curve with his presentation entitled “Technology Innovation Expanding U.S. Oil and Gas Resource Potential. The event was held in Arlington, Virginia in September 2018. For more information, visit http://www.usaee.org/USAEE2018/program.aspx

National Coal Council. In August 2018, Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, was named to the National Coal Council, a Federal Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Established in 1984, the NCC provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy on general policy matters relating to coal and the coal industry. For more information on the National Coal Council, visit https://www.nationalcoalcouncil.org/

ScienceDirect. Mike Godec, Vice President of Advanced Resources International, is a co-author for the paper “Alternate uses of retired oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico”, published in ScienceDirect’s Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 167, 1 January 2019, Pages 52-59. To view the paper, visit https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569118301923.

National Petroleum Council. In June 2018, Mr. Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, was appointed by United States Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, to be a member of the National Petroleum Council during the 2018-2019 term. Mr. Kuuskraa has been a member of the NPC since his first term in 2013. For more information on the National Petroleum Council, visit https://www.npc.org.

The CO2GeoNet Open Forum, to be held 24-25 April 2018 on San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy will include a Post-Open Forum workshop organized by Gassnova and Advanced Resources International (ARI). The April 26th workshop, entitled “From Pilot Research to Application in the Field: a Norwegian-US Knowledge-sharing workshop” will include an early afternoon U.S. Session, followed by a session highlighting Norwegian experience. Participants and presentations from Advanced Resources include: Mr. Vello Kuuskraa, President (Integration of CO2 Storage with Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Global Perspective); Mr. Michael Godec, Vice President (Regulatory and Policy Developments in the US: Incentives and/or Impediments?); and Mr. David Riestenberg, Project Manager (Establishing a Commercial Scale Storage Site in Kemper County, MS). For more information visit: http://conference2018.co2geonet.com/#schedule

On Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Carbon Mitigation Initiative will host Vello Kuuskraa, President and Michael Godec, Vice President of Advanced Resources International for their event entitled: Carbon Management, CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery, and the Means for its Achievement. Mr. Kuuskraa’s presentation is entitled “Domestic CO2-EOR Industry and Carbon Management”, and will be followed by Mr. Godec’s presentation entitled, “CO2-EOR – Policy, Regulation and Global Potential”. This event will be held at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. For more information on how to attend, visit: https://environment.princeton.edu/calendar/carbon-management-and-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery

CSIS U.S. Tight Oil Event. Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, will be the lunch time speaker for the upcoming event, “The Short-Term Outlook for U.S. Tight Oil Production”. This event is presented by the CSIS Energy & National Security Program and will be held on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at CSIS Headquarters in Washington, D.C. For more information: https://www.csis.org/events/short-term-outlook-us-tight-oil-production

IEA/KAPSARC CO2 EOR Workshop. In January 2018, Michael Godec, Vice President of Advanced Resources International, traveled to Paris, France to participate in the International Energy Agency (IEA) / King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) sponsored workshop on Decarbonising Oil: The Role of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2-EOR). Mr. Godec’s presentation, entitled “Global Opportunities for Next Generation CO2-EOR with CCUS,” was presented during the session “Using CO2‐EOR for Storage: Technology Focus.” The IEA/KAPSARC workshop was based on recognising the great challenge of large-scale development and deployment of CO2-EOR, and the associated benefits for energy security and the environment. A workshop summary report will be forthcoming. For more information, go to: https://www.kapsarc.org/news-events/

USTDA U.S. Gas Infrastructure Exports Initiative. Advanced Resources International has been asked to partner in the launch of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and U.S. industry’s U.S. Gas Infrastructure Exports Initiative. The launch will take place on November 17, 2017 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to connect American companies to export opportunities across the gas value chain in emerging economies. The Initiative is a way for USTDA and its U.S. gas industry partners to spotlight U.S. LNG and the need for emerging markets to develop the sustainable gas infrastructure required to increase the use of gas in their economies and to receive U.S. LNG exports. Working together, U.S. Government and industry partners can maximize our impact in developing key gas sector markets. For more information, go to: https://www.USTDA.GOV

First Annual CCUS Technical Section Dinner at SPE ATCE 2017. George Koperna, Vice President of Advanced Resources International and chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) CCUS Technical Section, moderated a panel discussing the motivations, limitations, and challenges of CCUS at a dinner held by the SPE CCUS Technical Section at SPE’s annual meeting in October 2017. The panel comprised Concetto Fischetti, engineering director with the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), which sponsored the dinner; Chuck McConnell, executive director of the Energy and Environment Initiative at Rice University; and Vanessa Nuñez-López, research scientist associate with the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. For more information on this event, please go to: https://www.spe.org/en/hsenow/hse-now-article-page/?art=3543

Unconventional Resources: Three Alternative Paths To Maximizing Unconventional Resources
Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International recently gave a presentation at the 2017 SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) held in Austin, Texas. Kuuskraa discussed the alternative pathways companies may take to discover unconventional resources while maximizing existing plays in the near future. The full technical paper for this presentation (URTeC 2724691, Perspectives on Emerging Domestic Unconventional Plays) can be accessed via the article published by the Journal of Petroleum Technology, go to: https://www.spe.org/en/jpt/jpt-main-page/ and search: Kuuskraa. Subscription fees may apply.

Advanced Resources International is part of the winning KeyLogic Team for contract award for U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Advanced Resources International has been a support contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Strategic Center for Coal, Office of Program Performance and Benefits for many years. As part of the KeyLogic Team for this contract, Advanced Resources International will participate in key areas of analytical and modeling support that are expected to include updates to assessment of onshore and offshore CO2-EOR and CO2 storage, completing the ROZ resource evaluation in the Permian Basin, and providing “quick turnaround” response to various offices of NETL. For more information, please go to http://www.keylogic.com/about/news-and-events/news/2016/05/17/keylogic-awarded-contract-for-department-of-energy-s-national-energy-technology-laboratory-valued-at-$112-million

Advanced Resources International is part of U.S. DOE CarbonSAFE Awards
Advanced Resources International (ARI) is a subcontractor for three CO2 storage projects recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) as part of DOE's Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative. As part of the Storage Complex Feasibility Projects - Phase II awards, ARI is part of the Southern States Energy Board team that will establish a commercial-scale CO2 geologic storage complex adjacent to the Mississippi Power Company Kemper County Energy Facility. In addition, as part of the CCS Pre-feasibility Projects - Phase I awards, ARI is part of the Carbon Management Institute at the University of Wyoming team for: (1) a pre-feasibility assessment for secure, commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage will be performed at the Rock Springs Uplift (RSU) and (2) an evaluation of suitable storage reservoirs within the immediate vicinity of the Dry Fork Power Station. For more information on this award, please go to: https://energy.gov/under-secretary-science-and-energy/articles/energy-department-announces-more-44-million-co2-storage

Q&A Session on the Importance of Shale Gas Resources to the Power Sector.
Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, sits down with Michael Matz, Managing Editor of the EPRI Journal, for a Q&A session on the importance of shale gas resources to the power sector. To view the interview, please visit: http://eprijournal.com/from-moonbeam-gas-to-shale-revolution-to-whats-next/

Advanced Resources International Awarded Contract with the European Union (EU)
The recent boom in natural gas and crude oil production from shale formations (shale gas and tight or shale oil) in the US has ignited a discussion on the European potential for shale gas and/or oil extraction and its economic and environmental implications. Recently, Advanced Resources International was awarded a project entitled “Study for country wide economic impacts and framework conditions for potential unconventional gas and oil extraction in the EU - Country study: Germany and Poland” by the Institute for Energy and Transport of the Joint Research Centre/European Commission based in Petten, the Netherlands. The purpose of this effort is to provide a comprehensive overview of the potential economic and employment benefits associated with exploration and exploitation of unconventional gas and oil in Europe.

10/08/2009, George Koperna, co-chairman of the SPE International Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage and Utilization, during the SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans talks to the IADC about CCUS, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKE-ZEuCIl8

03/11/2016, Vello A. Kuuskraa of Advanced Resources International, Inc. Appointed to the
University of Wyoming Energy Resources Council. Press Release